After the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Porto formed a new starting line-up. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Defence: Rolando and Sapuruna at centre-back, Sissokoho and Fusile at full-back. Midfield: Meleles and Fernando partner in the back, Gao Xiaodong plays in the front when attacking, and the defense returns to the front of the back midfield, the position is very flexible, the forward: Falcao with the best shooting skills plays the center, Hulk and Rodriguez play two wings.

This squad is very combative, the only flaw is that the two central defenders are too young and inexperienced, but there are two midfielders Fernando and Meleles to protect, as long as they don't run against strong teams, it is generally difficult to penetrate.

After Porto became nervous, it was very difficult for Benfica's Cardoso, Di Maria, Aimar and Reyes to play easily.

In particular, the retreat of Hulk and Rodriguez brought great difficulties to Benfica's two wide attacks.

Hulk is strong but not slow, Rodriguez is fast, even if the two have average defensive skills, once they are entangled, the full-backs and mid-field players who supplement the defense will not be easy to pass the ball again.

In the 25th minute of the game, Aimar suddenly split the side to Di Maria after getting rid of Porto's pressing in the middle of the road.

Di Maria's two coquettish stops on the flanks angered Hulk, who kicked Di Maria over as he started cutting inside again.

The referee showed Hulk a yellow card.

Di Maria takes a quick free-kick and passes it to Aimar, who asks for the ball.

Nicknamed the Joker, Aimar moved to the Eagles last summer to follow in the footsteps of Spanish coach Flores, who had coached him in Valencia that year, and he was also given the role of a striker, but due to injury, Aimar played less than 10 league games, and Benfica's record was greatly affected by this.

Aimar took the ball up and prepared to smash it from the ribs into the box.

This is the interface between the full-back and the centre-back, because the distance between the full-back and the centre-back is not maintained well because of a foul just now, leaving a large gap.

But Aimar had just burst to the edge of the box,

Gao Xiaodong suddenly retreated deeply, stealing Aimar from the side and back like lightning, and knocked Aimar into the penalty area.

Porto 10 steals Benfica's 10. ”

"The clown was so pathetic that he was knocked off. ”

"Gao Xiaodong's figure can almost fit Aimar, and the physical competition is too bad. ”

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Aimar has rich experience, and after falling to the ground, he took advantage of Gao Xiaodong's turn and kicked Gao Xiaodong's ankle with a foot hook, wanting to delay Porto's counterattack with a foul.

But Gao Xiaodong was very solid in the game, and Aimar did not kick Gao Xiaodong this time.

It is definitely not easy to rush out of his own penalty area, Gao Xiaodong is very alert to pass the ball to Meleles, and he runs quickly to ask for the ball.

Meleleles's passing awareness is better than that of Fernando and Hulk, and when he saw Gao Xiaodong raising his hand to run, he directly made a wall match for Gao Xiaodong and passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong's running line.

Di Maria judged the coordination line of Meleles and Gao Xiaodong, and quickly came over from the side to steal.

Gao Xiaodong rushed straight over, knocked Di Maria away, and continued to walk forward.

Hulk was overjoyed when he saw Di Maria, who was extremely fast, fall, and ran forward along the side as fast as he could. Although Gao Xiaodong still has space for dribbling in front of him, he did not stick to the ball, and after being promoted to a B-level player, Gao Xiaodong's handling of the ball was more reasonable, and he launched a penetrating pass with the arch of his foot, which was handed over to Hulk accurately.

Hulk dribbled the ball to the side of the penalty area at high speed, and in the face of the wing-backs who retreated from the side, Hulk did not go down, but cut inside laterally.

Hulk's left-footed shot was so powerful that Benfica didn't dare to let him go, and the centre-back hurried over to block it.

Porto striker Falcao predicted in advance that the Benfica central defender would block, and he followed the central defender to the ribs as soon as possible.

Hulk reacted quickly and immediately passed the ball to the ribs.

It was a very good combination of running and passing, and Benfica's other centre-back was a step slower before Falcao had a shot on goal and he turned and fired a shot through Benfica goalkeeper Quem.

1:1

Porto equalised with a quick counter-attack.

"Beautiful!"

"This counterattack is so beautiful!"

The Porto fans in the stands cheered excitedly.

The on-site commentator was also excited by this sharp counterattack, "It's so fast, just pass the ball with four feet, Gao Xiaodong and Meleles wall cooperation, Gao Xiaodong passes Hulk, Hulk passes Falcao, the ball goes in, Benfica can't even touch the ball......"

"What a beautiful pass!" Falcao ran over and hugged Hulk after scoring the goal.

Falcao and Hulk were originally rivals in the attack, but scoring such a beautiful goal, both the passing and the goal were very happy, and the two instantly felt like they were in a good mood.

"It's the first pass from the high team. ”

Hulk didn't forget Gao Xiaodong, he and Falcao ran over together to hug Gao Xiaodong who came over.

Gao Xiaodong smiled and stretched out his arms to hulk and Falco, and said approvingly: "Beautiful! The pass is so beautiful! If you cooperate like this, we can play a game with Manchester United." ”

"It's still the captain's pass. Hulk and Falcao said almost in unison.

A 19-year-old boy praised the two 23-year-old youths like this, while the two older youths looked happy, outsiders must have felt very weird and a little out of harmony when they looked at it, but Gao Xiaodong is now the captain and is a popular candidate for the European golden boy, and his position is much bigger than Falcao and Hulk, Falcao and Hulk don't feel that there is anything wrong with them at all, but they feel very happy in their hearts, as if they have been recognized by the elders and celebrities.

Benfica coach Flores on the sidelines saw this neat and smooth counterattack with envy and hatred on his face.

When he was in Valencia, he relied on such counterattacks to compete with Barcelona Real Madrid and dominate La Liga.

When he came to Benfica, he also wanted to train such a defensive counterattack, so he bought Aimar and Reyes, but Aimar was plagued by injuries, and Di Maria's ability was not weaker than Vicente back then, but he was too lonely, and the counterattack was sometimes sharp, sometimes muddy, which made him extremely painful.

Ferreira was overjoyed, this was his dream cooperation, but he didn't expect to play in a League Cup final, he rushed to the sidelines, and said to Gao Xiaodong, Hulk and Falcao who were celebrating together: "Play like this!

After the equalizer, Porto became more and more courageous, and gradually burned the fire to Benfica's half, Hulk and Rodriguez, who had originally retreated to defense, also stepped up and pressed high in the front, preventing Benfica's two full-backs from assisting.

In the last minute of the first half, Gao Xiaodong received a through ball from Fernando in the middle, and he smashed into the 30-meter area of Benfica at high speed.

Hulk ran quickly to the baseline, and Falcao cut in from the center position to the ribs.

Gao Xiaodong slowed down and glanced at Hulk on the right, looking as if he was going to pass to the right side, allowing Hulk and Falcao to attack on the right side.

Benfica's defence reacted early and moved to their left.

Gao Xiaodong suddenly moved the ball to Benfica's right side, shook off the players who followed the defense, and shot vigorously.

Recently, Gao Xiaodong has been in the league or the cup, more of a passing organization, many people have forgotten his terrifying long shot, and when Gao Xiaodong shoots, everyone realizes that it is extremely dangerous to let Gao Xiaodong shoot casually in the area of 30 meters.

Gao Xiaodong's shot was very powerful, and it was a grass fly, goalkeeper had already moved to his left to prevent Falcao from receiving the ball and shooting, and when Gao Xiaodong shot at the goal, he was flying to save, and he was a step slower.

The ball flew past Quem's fingertips and slammed into the net.

2:1

Gao Xiaodong's long-range shot from 25 meters put Porto in the lead.

The stands once again burst into tsunami applause, and the fans cheered: Champion!